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  • August 10, 2011 |

    Hardwicke Chambers, McGrigors and Herbert Smith win Veolia panel roles

    Veolia has reviewed its UK panel arrangements, with Herbert Smith and McGrigors winning first-time appointments. In an unusual move, the French utility giant has also added a barristers' chambers to its external legal line-up for the first time, with Hardwicke Chambers winning the appointment.

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  • August 10, 2011 |

    Salans appoints new global COO with hire of ex-Ashurst man

    Salans has turned to the London office of Ropes & Gray for its new global chief operating officer. Peter Griffith, who joined Salans' London office on 8 August, will be responsible for all the firm's global support services, including finance, IT, business development and marketing. He replaces Neil Woodcock, who retired earlier this year.

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  • August 1, 2011 |

    Pinsents faces £10m negligence claim from former client

    Pinsent Masons has been hit with a negligence claim of more than £10m from a former client. Construction contractor Shepherd Construction has launched a claim in the High Court alleging that negligent drafting of contracts by Pinsents left the company liable to repay subcontractors when one of its clients went into administration.

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  • July 20, 2011 |

    Nationals and regionals: Addleshaws sees financials fall as rest of top 10 holds steady

    Addleshaw Goddard has emerged as the only top 10 national or regional law firm to see a decline in both revenue and profits in 2010-11 – a year when the group mirrored the marginal increases in profits and turnover seen across the top 50 as a whole.

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  • July 20, 2011 |

    Skillset transfer - outsourcing lessons for the legal industry

    I've worked in and around the insurance industry for as long as I've been lawyer. For a lawyer, the insurance industry is easy to understand. There are significant similarities between the legal profession and the insurance industry. Each is a conservative industry sector, slower than other industry sectors to embrace change, new technology and new business operating models. Each is a paper-based business focused on risk management that was once regional but has now become multinational. Each, too, is a regulated business where the protection of the rights of the ultimate end users of the service is of upmost importance.

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  • July 8, 2011 |

    DWF wins place on Halfords' first legal panel

    DWF, Pinsent Masons and Foot Anstey have won places on Halfords' first-ever legal panel.The trio have been appointed to the cycling and car product retailer's roster following a competitive tender process.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Shoosmiths leads for Thorntons on outsourcing deal and bank agreement

    Shoosmiths is advising troubled retailer Thorntons on its restructuring plans and an associated outsourcing agreement set to save the chocolate maker at least £5m over the next six years. The national law firm's commercial team is advising the company as it prepares to close a number of its stores following a strategic review of its business.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    Elite US trio added to Barclays panel after review of bank's advisers

    Barclays has added three US firms to its general advisory panel, following a comprehensive panel review intended to increase value for money from the bank's regular advisers. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have been added to the bank's main general advisory panel after Barclays decided to include the creation of a US sub-division for the first time.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    SNR Denton – careful what you didn't wish for

    It's an irony that as SNR Denton faces a tough post-merger period, a fair number of partners seeking to explain the firm's struggles have sought to pin the blame on Denton Wilde Sapte's previous management. The argument goes that the UK firm persistently ducked addressing difficult performance issues in the years preceding its US merger. You can make a solid case for that assertion, but long-time Dentons-watchers are also likely to ask how much the firm as a whole was ready to stomach that sort of medicine.

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  • June 29, 2011 |

    SNR Denton takes tough line on exit terms as partners quit and UK PEP falls 36%

    SNR Denton has been hit by the resignation of two more key partners as it emerges that the firm may hold senior equity partners to a 12-month notice period. The latest partners to hand in their notice are regulatory head Chris Borg and senior banking partner Michael Black, who are set to join Reed Smith and Norton Rose respectively.

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